The Enneagram and Decision-Making — From the Vault

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Knowing your underlying motivations and how you’re wired will help you make better leadership decisions. In this episode, Ian Morgan Cron and I talk about each Enneagram type and how they approach decisions.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, where we help leaders go further, faster.
0:07.6	I'm Andy Stanley, and on this episode, we are talking about decision making.
0:11.8	More specifically, we are talking about decision making by the numbers, the Enneagram numbers.
0:17.0	And if you are not familiar with the Enigram, well, you certainly will be by the time we wrap up this episode, because in the studio with me today is my friend Ian Cron. Welcome back, Ian.
0:28.1	It's great to be here, Andy, thanks.
0:29.5	Yeah, thanks for coming back. This is our second rodeo together, talking about leadership, but a little bit different filter.
0:36.0	Ian, as some of you know, is a best-selling
0:37.6	author, an Enneagram teacher, and podcast host. He is a psychotherapist, get this, songwriter,
0:43.3	and an Episcopal priest, and I'm pretty sure he makes his own close. Anyway, most recently,
0:50.7	Ian authored a book entitled The Road Back to You, subtitled an Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery,
0:57.2	which, by the way, I have read this book twice, and it has become a go-to resource for me as a staff
1:03.6	management tool, even though it's not written with that in mind, as you're going to discover,
1:08.0	there is so much to the Enneagram when it comes to leadership
1:10.9	and staff management. So as we're about to discover, there's actually a corollary to how we make
1:16.8	decisions, how well we make decisions, and how we are wired. And that brings us to the significance
1:23.6	of the Enneagram as it relates to decision making. So talk just a little bit about wiring
1:27.3	and decision making. And then we'll introduce folks to the Enneagram. Yeah relates to decision-making. So talk just a little bit about wiring and decision-making,
1:28.7	and then we'll introduce folks to the Enneagram.
1:31.0	Yeah, so you know, you're absolutely right.
1:32.3	I think our inborn temperament and our personality
1:37.2	greatly influence our decision-making styles.
1:41.8	And they influence how we respond when others make decisions that affect us as well.
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